The Srimad-Bhagavatam Canto 1 Ch 18

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The Srimad-Bhagavatam Canto 1 Ch 18

 

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TRANSLATION

My Lord, devotees like your good self are verily holy places

personified Because you carry the Personality of Godhead within your

heart, you turn all places into places of pilgrimage.

 

PURPORT

The Personality of Godhead is omnipresent by His diverse .potencies

everywhere, just as the power of electricity is distributed

everywhere within space. Similarly, the Lord's omnipresence is

perceived and manifested by His unalloyed devotees like Vidura, just

as electricity is manifested in an electric bulb. A pure devotee like

Vidura always feels the presence of the Lord everywhere. He sees

everything in the potency of the Lord and the Lord in everything. The

holy places all over the earth are meant for purifying the polluted

consciousness of the human being by an atmosphere surcharged with the

presence of the Lord's unalloyed devotees. If anyone visits a holy

place, he must search out the pure devo­tees residing in such holy

places, take lessons from them, try to apply such instructions in

practical life and thus gradually prepare oneself for

the ultimate salvation, going back to Godhead. To go to some holy

place of pilgrimage does not mean only to take a bath in the Ganges

or Yamuna or to visit the temples situated in those places. One

should also find represenatives of Vidura who have no desire in life

save and except to

serve the Personality of Godhead. The Personality of Godhead is

always with such pure devotees because of their unalloyed service,

which is without any tinge of fruitive action or utopian speculation.

They are in

the actual service of the Lord, specifically by the process of

hearing and chanting. The pure devotees hear from the authorities and

chant, sing and write of the glories of the Lord. Mahamuni Vyasadeva

heard from

Narada, and then he chanted in writing; Sukadeva Gosvami studied from

his father, and he described it to Pariksit; that is the way of

Srimad­Bhagavatam. So by their actions the pure devotees of the Lord

can render any place into a place of pilgrimage, and the holy places

are worth the name only on their account. Such pure devotees are able

to rectify the polluted atmosphere of any place, and what to speak of

a holy place ren­dered unholy by the questionable actions of

interested persons who try to adopt a professional life at the cost

of the reputation of a holy place.

 

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